To improve access to care, many professional organizations have advocated for classifying obesity as a disease. However, the ...

About 1 in 5 classified as overweight based on BMI alone considered to have obesity according to European society definition.

A new Delphi consensus led by the National Psoriasis Foundation proposes a standardized definition of on-treatment remission ...

Negotiations are ongoing in New York to agree the latest UN political declaration on non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and ...

USC researchers define brain scan marker to better classify Alzheimer’s disease-related changes The findings, published in Imaging Neuroscience, provide an important step toward refining ...

We as a nation have and will continue to weather myriad challenges. With that said, the convergence of Covid-19 and monsoon-borne diseases demands unity and resolve. Vigilance and preparedness today ...

With improved treatment and shared decision-making, patients are finding new ways to take dual control of both a condition that is often hidden, and the things that matter to them.

Etiome’s precision medicine approach introduces a temporal component to treating disease — drugs developed specifically to treat disease at particular points in time even before symptoms show ...

Brain maps define diseases Researchers have identified well-delineated brain networks that are linked to five distinct neurodegenerative diseases, according to a paper published in Neuron today (April ...

Are good health and obesity mutually exclusive? Not necessarily — but it’s complicated. For years, body size was considered a barrier to most sports, but today that’s starting to change — with ...

What are Rare Diseases? The definition of a rare disease varies geographically. For example, in India, a disease is considered rare if it affects one in 5,000 people. In general, a rare disease is ...